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America owes its fascination with the yo-yo mainly to Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr., who spotted it while on a business trip to San Francisco in 1928. It was being used by Pedro Flores, a ...

Walk the dog. Around the world. Rock the baby. Nearly everyone recognizes these phrases as the repertory of the yo-yo enthusiast. Now, 62 years after Donald F. Duncan Sr. brought it back from the ...

Few people get to turn a childhood passion into a lifelong career. Musical prodigies can do it. Some athletes. But a kid who does yo-yo tricks? Just ask Yo-Yo Mike. Or, as he’s known at Flambeau ...

BENJIE SANDERS / ARIZONA DAILY STAR 1978 The words Duncan and yo-yo are almost synonymous. But when Tucsonan Donald Duncan Jr., whose father had created the original Duncan yo-yo, invented a new ...

Donald Duncan Jr., whose father founded the company in the 1920s that churned out millions of Duncan yo-yos and who later helped popularize the toy himself, has died in a single-vehicle crash in ...

2004 marks the 75th anniversary of the Duncan Yo-Yo. To a historian, the yo-yo is the marketing success story of Donald Duncan. To a child (of all ages) it is a challenging toy. "To a physicist, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It’s been 90 years of fun for Duncan Toys, an Ohio company known for its yo-yos. To celebrate, it’ll be slinging out a few yo-yo events in downtown Cleveland this summer. The ...